Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To perform vivisection on (a living animal).
- intransitive verb To practice vivisection.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dissect the living body of; practise vivisection upon; anatomize, as a living animal.
- To practise vivisection; dissect a living animal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb colloq. To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To perform
vivisection upon; to dissect alive.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cut (a body) open while still alive
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Outlaw rarely gallops, no longer butts, only periodically kicks, comes in to the pole and does her work without attempting to vivisect Maid's medulla oblongata, and -- marvel of marvels -- is really and truly getting lazy.
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The next step would be to vivisect some actual wingnut brains.
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Wolf Larsen looked curiously at him, as though about to probe and vivisect him, then changed his mind, as from the foregone conclusion that there was nothing there to probe.
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Supposing it is true: why do aliens abduct and vivisect cows anyways?
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It occurred to me that it wasn't fair for Rob to vivisect his laptop for me and not get the same courtesy in return.
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They nailed poor animals up on boards by their four paws to vivisect them and see the circulation of the blood which was a great subject of conversation.
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They nailed poor animals up on boards by their four paws to vivisect them and see the circulation of the blood which was a great subject of conversation.
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As George Bernard Shaw once stated, 'Whoever doesn't hesitate to vivisect will hardly hesitate to lie about it'. by
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After all, if we're going to use, abuse, and slaughter sentient beings to please our palates, enhance our lives, and vivisect, in order to restore justice and to put an end to abject hypocrisy, we need to include our own species in these activities.
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They do not yet have the Indian counterparts of Madison Avenue hucksters who could vivisect the polity to minuscule proportions; thus making them eminently more manageable and then target messages catering to their special interests.
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"Give him ginger. Thrash the mongrel within an inch of his life. The cat-o' nine-tails. Geld him. Vivisect him."
Joyce, Ulysses,15
February 8, 2007